US EditionHighlights from the G7 meeting in Kananaskis
KANANASKIS, ALBERTA, JUN 17 – The summit emphasized reasserting North American energy ties and advancing trade agreements amid escalating geopolitical conflicts, with Canada exporting 2.8 million barrels of oil daily to the U.S.
- Canada hosted the 2025 G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, marking Prime Minister Mark Carney’s debut at a significant international leaders’ meeting.
- The summit occurred amid ongoing global tensions from Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which shaped discussions and calls for increased military support.
- Carney engaged in multiple sessions on economic outlook, security, and community safety, and met leaders from the EU, Japan, France, Italy, and the U.S.
- Canada committed $4.3 billion to aid Ukraine and implemented new sanctions against Russia, while the Ukrainian Canadian Congress called for the seizure of $300 billion in Russian assets.
- The summit ended without a major falling-out despite U.S. President Donald Trump's early exit to address the Israel-Iran conflict, highlighting continued importance of G7 collaboration.
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The lack of minimally concrete results and the absence of a joint communiqué at the G-7 summit held this week in Kananaskis, Canada, is a good example of the dire moment that multilateral initiatives are going through despite the fact that the global war context makes them more necessary than ever. The leaders of the world’s major economies (except for China, which is not part of the group) have been unable to agree on such peremptory issues as …
Was the G7 a success for host Canada? Let’s take a look!
The G7 meeting this week was always going to be a tricky one. Set against the backdrop of the picturesque mountains of the Kananaskis Range, the meeting also took place amid a much uglier global tableau of trade wars between the world’s largest economies, and ongoing actual wars between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Hamas and, on the summit’s eve, Israel’s airstrikes on Iran. All of that was in addition to other long standing agenda items like …
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